Corruption could be eliminated through institutional reforms:
1. eliminate the pork-barrel system (to deprive the politicians of logistics for perpetuating their dynasties);
2. revert to line-item-budgeting (to prevent fund-juggling);
3. revert to construction of public works by the government (to prevent the politicians from extorting money from the contractors); and
4. dismantle government-owned gambling dens, including sweepstakes (to deprive the President of funds used as political largesse, and to remove one major cause for the widening gap between the rich and the poor).